Recalling days of terror

9:08 AM,
Sep. 11, 2013

One World Trade Center rises above the lower Manhattan skyline in New York on Sept. 4. Twelve years after terrorists destroyed the old World Trade Center, the new World Trade Center is becoming a reality, with a museum commemorating the attacks and two office towers where thousands of people will work set to open within the next year.

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It's been 12 years since the World Trade Towers in New York and Pentagon in Washington were attacked by terrorists.

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